Horses Mouth February 2, 2007 09:47 AM

February 02, 2007 -- 09:47 AM EST // View Comments (634) // Post a Comment

WHAT IS UP AT THE TIMES, ANYWAY? Here's the lede on a piece by Patrick Healy and Jeff Zeleny about Hillary Clinton's fundraising that ran in today's paper:

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is establishing record-setting goals for presidential campaign fund-raising, her advisers say, asking donors to raise at least $1 million for the honor of being in her top echelon of supporters.

For the "honor" of being in her top echelon? Is that really how her advisers put it? No question, this is a tiny thing -- but all the little inanities are worth pointing out, because it does seem like more and more of these silly, snide throwaway lines are snaking their way into the paper's political writing of late. Put enough of them together, and before long you have a torrent of silliness. Is this sort of idiocy really going to be allowed to dumb down the Paper of Record's coverage of what may prove to be the most important Presidential election in decades?

-- Greg Sargent | Comments (634) | Post a Comment

COMMENTS:

Is this sort of idiocy really going to be allowed to dumb down the Paper of Record's coverage of what may prove to be the most important Presidential election in decades?

Yes.

This has been another edition of Simple Answers to Simple Questions (h/t Atrios).

Indeed, going to be? It has been allowed for some time, as you well know, Greg.

Posted by: Gregory
Date: February 2, 2007 10:48 AM

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Posted by: DP
Date: February 2, 2007 10:48 AM

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Posted by: Greg
Date: February 2, 2007 11:44 AM

This has a kind of self-referential incoherence about it:

>Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is establishing record-setting goals for presidential campaign fund-raising, her advisers say, asking donors to raise at least $1 million for the honor of being in her top echelon of supporters.

She's asking them to raise a lot of money for the honor of being someone who raises a lot of money. Are there others raising more money who are competing for that honor--or those who don't raise money, but have the self-contradictory honor of being a top fundraiser? It just don't make no sense.

Posted by: jcasey
Date: February 4, 2007 03:42 PM

Silliness? From a paper that runs a 6000 word he-said, she-said look at "Intelligent Design"? Who would think such a thing?

The sad thing is that when I canceled my subscription, the circulation desk didn't think they heard correctly. Was I really the first person to cancel the NYTimes because it was too right-wing?

Posted by: A former NYTimes subscriber
Date: February 5, 2007 12:28 AM

How is this different than Bush's pioneers and rangers and such? I read this to simply mean she was setting the threshold to get such a title at $1 million. Presumably, it also grants the same kind of access and prestige that Bush's top echelon gets.

I don't get the point of this one.

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